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511 examples of Congressional in a sentence

For this so-called "battle," 20 Congressional Medals of Honor for Valor were given to the 7th Cavalry.
But I truly believe that, as a scientist, using mostly federal funds to do the research, I owe it to the public, to agency heads and congressional people to share my knowledge with them so they can use it, hopefully to make better decisions about our environmental policy.
The poorest congressional district in America, the most migratory community in America, we can do this.
He's got the Congressional Medal of Honor.
In the United States, where I live, there have been no congressional hearings.
(CA and RL speaking at once) He had the option to go to congressional committees, and there are mechanisms to do that that are in place, and so he didn't do any of those things.
There's a man by the name of Captain William Swenson who recently was awarded the congressional Medal of Honor for his actions on September 8, 2009.
But I ran anyway, and in 2012, I became an upstart in a New York City congressional race.
Billed as a utopian paradise, the colony was more like a prison camp, and when a congressional delegation arrived to investigate its conditions, Jones executed his final plan.
After that recent terrible tragedy in San Bernardino, we jammed Congressional switchboards.
At one point, a congressional staffer said that there was no way that I was going to be confirmed by the United States Senate because of my past, despite the fact that I had been in recovery for over 20 years, and despite the fact that this job takes a little bit of knowledge around addiction.
So, in 1969, beloved American children's television presenter Mister Rogers sits impaneled before the United States congressional subcommittee on communications, chaired by the seemingly very curmudgeonly John Pastore.
I was a political science major, and I worked as a community organizer and on a congressional campaign.
All I can tell you is that in my congressional office in Colorado and my office in Washington, we're getting hundreds and hundreds of calls about the endangered ape and gorilla population in Rwanda, but nobody is calling about the people.
The man hopes to be on the rise to the point of possibly getting a congressional seat after the marriage.
The "Confidential" part was meant to piggy-back on the popular appeal of the lurid magazine of the same name, while the labor racketeering theme tied in with headline Congressional investigations of the day.
What makes this movie very special is the fact that the most ever to date decorated US soldier (two dozen of the highest medals) and a Congressional Medal of Honor receiver, not only lived through the war, but in fact played himself ! after being talked into it, seems he didn't want to play himself, he thought it would degrade the Medal of Honor.
When we meet him, despite having won The Congressional Medal of Honor, he is turning himself in to Investigative Services for murder.
If oil prices rise much further during the summer “driving season” that starts in the US about now, Trump will be blamed by voters and Republicans could suffer in November’s midterm congressional elections, especially in Midwestern swing states.
The isolationism that characterized America's 1994 congressional elections is forgotten.
But now congressional Republicans are refusing to adapt the unemployment system to this reality; as Congress went into recess for the holidays, it gave the long-term unemployed the equivalent of a pink slip: as 2014 begins, the roughly 1.3 million Americans who lost their unemployment benefits at the end of December have been left to their own devices.
He is now at loggerheads with the Republican congressional majority over his landmark climate-change agreement with China and his controversial amnesty plan for illegal immigrants.
Moreover, it looks increasingly unlikely that the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the US has negotiated with 11 other Pacific Rim countries, will receive congressional support.
In the US, the next opportunity to do that will be the midterm congressional elections in November.
On the contrary, financial regulation has become a key issue in November’s presidential and congressional elections.
In Congressional elections that fall in the middle of a president’s term, usually fewer than 40% of eligible Americans bother to vote.
After its success on the national stage in the 2010 midterm congressional election, many Republican lawmakers became so concerned about securing their party’s “base” for future re-election bids that they no longer felt comfortable pursuing the type of bipartisan cooperation that underpin effective economic policymaking.
In the United States, some companies pay the unemployed to stand in line for free public tickets to congressional hearings.
In both examples – congressional tickets and organ sales – Sandel suggests reducing money’s role.
Second, the House Democrats will begin to investigate Trump’s taxes and personal business dealings, including through congressional subpoenas.
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